History Characters / WastelandAntagonists

* CloningBlues: In ''VideoGame/Wasteland3'', you can meet a nerdy and awkward clone of him.
** CloneDegeneration: Irv, Finster's clone in ''Wasteland 3'', is "fourth generation" and not as smart as the original (though, thankfully, also not as omnicidal as the original either). Irv's own attempts to make clones resulted in clones that were barely human in intelligence, utterly insane, and so unstable that they dissolve into goo without a nearby machine emitting resonance to keep them intact.

This is a character sheet for the major recurring antagonists of the ''VideoGame/{{Wasteland}}'' series. See the main index for the series [[Characters/{{Wasteland}} here]].

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Although he presents himself as an OutsideContextProblem and the game's true BigBad, you don't actually hear about him until shortly before you meet him. When you confront him face-to-face, he seems almost ''offended'' by the fact that you don't know who he is. [[spoiler: Makes sense, as he's actually just Matthias's [[TheDragon dragon]].]]

* NotSoDifferent: In the endgame, he eventually asks Team Echo why they'vecontinued to chase him down and oppose him, despite the constant risk to their lives. If they answer that [[JustDoingMyJob it's because he's an enemy of the Rangers,]] he'll invoke this trope.
--> '''Matthias''': Ah, honesty at last. You hound me because I threaten your status as the alpha wolves of Arizona, just as you hound all others who defy you. At least you're honest enough to admit that it has nothing to do with humanity, or morals, or civilization. Your gang hates my gang, and that's that.

A former member of the Guardians of the Old Order before their destruction at the hands of the Rangers, Matthias is the ounder of the Children of the New Citadel, a cult that believes in the union between man and machine as the next step in the evolution of humanity as a whole. Matthias and his Children wish to embrace the seemingly benign message through promises of artificial implants, ranging from simple prosthetic limbs to atomic hearts. '''Spoilers follow.'''

A pre-war scientist, he survived the nuclear apocalypse inside the Cochise Base and was driven insane by the Cochise AI and turned into a emotionless cyborg. He's the TheDragon to the real BigBad of the first game.

%%!!Robert John Finster

!!The Robot Army
[[folder:Dugan]]
!!Dugan
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->''"Nothing can save you from being ground beneath the iron-shod feet of my robot army."''

A malevolent robotic overlord who intends to annihilate all organic life. At the same time when the Children of Citadel broadcasted their messages of machine-human integration, the Robot Army began to announce their malevolent intents as they rampaged across Los Angeles wasteland. While their combat robots fought the locals, their worker robots secured supplies to sustain their goal of terror against mankind. [[spoiler: At least this was their impression they give to distract the locals from finding out Matthias' plan to convert sizeable populace in cyborg army for Cochise AI to control.]]

* CardCarryingVillain: He's very forthright about his hatred of humans and his intention to exterminate them all. [[spoiler:It's all part of the act to get everyone to rightfully fear him, and thus rally behind the "hero" set to defeat him.]]
* TheDragon: [[spoiler: He presents himself as an OutsideContextProblem that Matthias will save the wasteland from in order to draw more people to the Children of the New Citadel.]]
* EvilVersusEvil: He desires to destroy humanity, and is thusly opposed by Matthias, who wishes to enslave humanity. [[spoiler: At least, that's what he tells everyone - they're actually in cahoots.]]
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Although he presents himself as an OutsideContextProblem and the game's true BigBad, you don't actually hear about him until shortly before you meet him. When you confront him face-to-face, he seems almost ''offended'' by the fact that you don't know who he is. [[spoiler: Makes sense, as he's actually just Matthias's [[TheDragon dragon]].]]
* KillAllHumans: His first goal for the Robot Army, though he claims that he's willing to temporarily spare any who aid him in his conquest. [[spoiler: This isn't actually his goal at all, of course - he's actually helping Matthias to reawaken the Machine God.]]
* LargeAndInCharge: Is noticeably larger than other Synthetics, and has a minigun for an arm.
* LargeHam: In contrast to the creepy and soft-spoken Matthias, Dugan is a full blown scenery-chewing supervillain.
* OmnicidalManiac: His second goal for the Robot Army, converting the entire earth into a giant factory to produce more of his robots. [[spoiler: This isn't actually his goal at all, of course - he's actually helping Matthias to reawaken the Machine God.]]
* TheRemnant: [[spoiler: Like Matthias, he's a surviving member of the Guardians of the Citadel, who were driven out by the original Desert Rangers.]]
* ResistanceIsFutile: Every single thing that comes out of his mouth on the radio is some form of this.
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!!The Children of the Citadel
[[folder:Matthias]]
!!!Matthias
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-> ''"Matthias's law is vengeance. And soon, Matthias's law will stretch all the way to Arizona..."''

A former member of the Guardians of the Old Order before their destruction at the hands of the Rangers, Matthias is the ounder of the Children of the New Citadel, a cult that believes in the union between man and machine as the next step in the evolution of humanity as a whole. Matthias and his Children wish to embrace the seemingly benign message through promises of artificial implants, ranging from simple prosthetic limbs to atomic hearts. '''Spoilers follow.'''
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!!Tinker

The God of the Children of the Citadel, an all-powerful machine that they claim will guide humanity into a cybernetic golden age. They're wrong, of course - it wants nothing more than to eradicate all life on earth, starting with the human race.

!!Recurring Enemies
[[folder:Scorpitrons]]
!!Scorpitron / Scorpitron 2.0
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Enormous robot scorpions designed before the war, and among the deadliest opponents in each of the games.

* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: The thing is ''gigantic''.
* DamageSpongeBoss: With 50-250 HP in the first game and up to 4000 HP in the second, you'd better believe it's one of these.
* FlunkyBoss: Every few turns it will fire a batch of Mini-Scorpitrons at the player, forcing them to deal with multiple threats.
* RecurringBoss: The player fights at least two of them over the course of the California storyline.
* StationaryBoss: The original Scorpitron, despite being mounted on tank treads, never moves from its initial position.
* SpiderTank: The later models crawl on six articulated legs.

!!The Children of the New Citadel

The Children of the New Citadel is a cult that believes in the union between man and machine as the next step in the evolution of humanity as a whole. Founded by Matthias, a former member of the Guardians of the Old Order before their destruction at the hands of the Rangers, the Children wish to embrace the seemingly benign message through promises of artificial implants; ranging from simple prosthetic limbs to atomic hearts. '''Spoilers follow.'''